New Datetime extension

[schulle4u]

There are actually people who do not look at the valuable content first when visiting a website, but check if the copyright notice in the footer contains the current year and then complain to the webmaster. Yes, this has happened to me a few times. Since I forget to edit my 'footer.md' once a year and also avoid changing layouts if possible, I have now written an extension for this. Probably pointless for most of you, but I'll post it anyway.

Datetime is basically a wrapper for the php function date() and provides the available output formats as a shortcut, at least the basic ones. The Yellow API is used to ensure the correct language-specific output (e.g. days and months). To stay with the example of the copyright line, it is enough to write [datetime Y] to display the current year. So if someone needs a dynamic display of date and time information somewhere, you now have all the options. I might also find a solution for the friends of static websites. I also included the templates from the language files. They can be called with timeshort, timemedium, timelong or dateshort, datemedium and datelong as format parameter.

Happy new year! 🙂

[pftnhr]

Nice one! I helped myself with

&copy; <?php echo (date('Y') == 2023 ) ? "2023" : "2023 - " . date('Y') ?>

in my layout-footer.html.

[annaesvensson]

Good work. If your extensions is a wrapper around PHP's date() then you probably see months and weekdays in English. If your extension uses our API's language->getDateFormatted() then you see months and weekdays in the correct language. You can test this with date formats... let me check... shown in discussion #273.

[schulle4u]

Yes, the extension already uses this function. I've updated my explanation accordingly.

$this->yellow->language->getDateFormatted(time(), $format)